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    "id": 617773,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/617773/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 981,
        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
        "slug": "priscilla-nyokabi-kanyua"
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    "content": "It is a Bill that has been in the pipeline for a long time. It has been worked on since the days of the National Steering Committee on Legal Aid. There have been efforts by the Executive to provide legal aid and systems that avail legal aid in the Executive and Judiciary as well but we need a legal framework that provides for legal aid in our country. We need a legislation that houses and covers all the matters that relate to legal aid. That is what the Legal Aid Bill seeks to do. The various efforts that have existed, including the many other methods there have been of availing legal aid, will now come under one umbrella of legal aid service providers. The Board will regulate the practice in a manner that befits the dictates of Article 48 on access to justice and Article 50, which requires that if substantial injustice will result in a criminal proceeding, the person who stands to suffer the substantial injustice receives legal aid at the cost and expense of the State. Those are the matters and details of the Constitution that the particular Bill will be addressing."
}